Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

TRAC finds Remarkable Spike in Social Security Disability Lawsuits in July 2020, Highest in Our Records (since 2007) http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/civil/621/

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Immigration Court Completions Remain at Historic Lows Through July 2020. Before the pandemic, immigration judges were completing collectively about 42,000 cases... per month. Now it's just 6,000 per month. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/620/

EOIR Director McHenry Replies To TRAC's Letters But Ignores Agency's Data Troubles TRAC's letter from McHenry denied there were any problems and attacked TRAC's motives for spreading what he claims are falsehoods about the agency. Report and letter: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/614/

EOIR's Data Release on Asylum So Deficient Public Should Not Rely on Accuracy of Court Records TRAC has concluded that the data updated through April 2020 it has just received on asylum and other applications for relief to the Immigration Courts are too unreliable to be meaningful or to warrant publication. We are therefore discontinuing updating our popular Immigration Court Asylum Decisions app, and will take other steps to highlight this problem. We also wish to alert the ...public that any statistics EOIR has recently published on this topic may be equally suspect, as will be any future reports the agency publishes until these major data deficiencies are explained and rectified. The EOIR's apparent reckless deletion of potentially irretrievable court records raises urgent concerns that without immediate intervention the agency's sloppy data management practices could undermine its ability to manage itself, thwart external efforts at oversight, and leave the public in the dark about essential government activities. Left unaddressed, the number of deleted records will compound each month and could trigger an expensive data crisis at the agency. And here the missing records are the actual applications for asylum, and how the court is handling them. This is a subject on which there is widespread public interest and concern. https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/611/

How Is Covid-19 Impacting Federal Criminal Enforcement? Law enforcement agencies across the country have been referring fewer criminal cases to federal prosecutors since the coronavirus pandemic began. See the report: https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/608/

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51,307 Veterans File Personal Injury Suits Alleging 3M Company Knew About Defective Earplugs but Sold Them to Army Anyway Without Warning Military or Public See TRAC's Report Here: https://bit.ly/VeteransSue3M

Department of Justice Finds No Data for Its Claims of FOIA Requesters Rushing into Court DOJ claims that FOIA requesters rushing into court contradicted the FOIA Project's research. When asked, the agency found no data to support its own claims. http://foiaproject.org//department-of-justice-finds-no-da/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Is Your Income Higher Now Than 10 Years Ago? It Depends On Where You Live. Newest TRAC reports examines income inequality based on data reported to the IRS on form 1040. http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/604/... IRS #TaxDay #April15 #Inequality #Wealth #IRS #Taxes

Happy (postponed) Tax Day! 30 years ago, TRAC's founders David Burnham and Sue Long began using FOIA to access IRS data. "This allows you to examine what government agencies are actually doing - not what they say they're doing," David told the ... The New York Times. Later today, we will release new findings from our latest research on income inequality. Stay tuned!

Maps are a powerful way to tell stories with data. That's why in 2020, TRAC has a new initiative to incorporate mapping and spatial analysis into our research using ArcGIS. Follow us on Twitter today to see our latest maps. Arcgis Esri American Association of Geographers

NEW TRAC REPORT: Along the US-Mexico Border Prosecutions for Harboring Immigrants Continue to Climb https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/603/